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DriveScale Composable Infrastructure: Elastic and Efficient Resources for Modern Workloads
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, JBOD, JBOF, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN
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Is NVMe Enough for Efficient Hyperscale Data Centers?
Hyperscale architectures typically sacrifice resource efficiency for performance by using direct attached storage instead of a shared storage solution. That lost efficiency though, means the organization is spending money on excess compute, graphics processing units (GPUs) and storage capacity that…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN
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The Problems with Hyperscale Storage
Direct attached storage (DAS) is the default storage “infrastructure” for data intensive workloads like Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and TensorFlow. The problem, as we detailed in the last blog, is using DAS creates a brittle, siloed environment. Compute nodes can’t be…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, DAS, DriveScale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN
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Bringing the Cloud Model to On-Premises Flash Storage – StorPool Briefing Note
Legacy storage-area network (SAN) architectures are notoriously expensive and complex, leading many enterprises to consider migrating workloads off-premises. However, the public cloud model carries recurring costs that add up over time; with the growing petabytes of data that need to…
Consumption-Based IT with No Minimum Commitment – Lenovo TruScale Briefing Note
The modern data center infrastructure market is characterized by the need for improved agility and responsiveness, and to make more strategic use of IT budgets. Cloud computing has introduced the concept of subscription-based IT service delivery, but it lacks on-premises…
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Cloud, Consumption, DAS, HPC, Hyperconverged, IaaS, Lenovo, MSP, SAN, Tape
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Making NVMe and NVMeoF Testing Accessible for the Enterprise – SANBlaze Briefing Note
Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage media and NVMe-over Fabrics (NVMeoF) storage network protocols open the door for new levels of performance and latency demanded by intensive, modern workloads such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence. However, the higher price…
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, NVMe, NVMeoF, SAN, SANBlaze, VDI, Virtual Instruments
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Does NVMe Flash Have to Be End-to-End
One of the advantages of the NVMe Flash standard is that it is networkable. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMf) brings direct attach storage like latency to shared storage systems. NVMf eliminates the need for modern applications like Hadoop and others to…
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HBA, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMf, Replication, SAN, Snapshots, Western Digital
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Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications Exposes New Storage Bottlenecks
IT administrators have reached a level of confidence with VMware and other hypervisors that make them more comfortable with virtualizing mission-critical workloads, like Oracle, SAS, and SAP. The goal is to gain the flexibility of a virtual compute infrastructure to…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Flash, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, SAN, Vexata, Virtualization
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Lightboard Video: Overcoming The Risk of Virtualizing Tier 1 Workloads
Organizations virtualize more than just standard applications, today businesses mandate the virtualization of mission critical applications like SAP, SAS, Oracle and MS-SQL. Placing these performance dependent applications in a virtualized environment could potentially risk inconsistent performance because they now share…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Machine Learning, NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, SAN, Vexata, VMworld2018
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How the Cognitive Era Impacts Storage – Vexata Briefing Note
Many enterprises have started or are well down the path of exploring the opportunities presented by artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning. The result of all of these initiatives is the cognitive era where systems almost appear to think…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Big data, DAS, Machine Learning, NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, SAN, Vexata
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